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This so-called "print plane" was developed by the Navy Research Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research (LASR) in Washington, D.C. to demonstrate that they could build a plane in 90 seconds. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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"Lucas" is an example of an MDS robot (mobile, dextrous, and social) being built by the Human Systems Interface Laboratory at the Navy Research Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research (LASR) in Washington, D.C. This robot can actually respond to human inconsistencies, such as determining that the second person on the scene of a fire does not have the up-to-date information on the status of the fire. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Ryan Homes is building 210 town-home-style condominiums at Linton at Ballenger Crossing in Frederick. The homes have approximately 1,650 to 2,500 finished square feet, with base prices from $239,990 to $264,990.

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Massive earthquakes triggered tsunami warnings for Indonesia on April 11, 2012. (The Washington Times)

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Motorists get stuck in traffic as they evacuate to higher ground after a quake was felt in Banda Aceh in the Aceh province on Sumatra island. (Associated Press)

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Bobby Petrino's downfall at Arkansas started with a motorcycle crash and ended with revelations that he paid his mistress $20,000 before hiring her to the football staff. (Associated Press)

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Tiger Woods tied for 40th at the Masters, his his worst 72-hole position in any major as a pro. (Associated Press)

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Waste Management Inc. collects garbage weekly for the city of Seattle. City officials are pondering a switch to every-other-week garbage collection and may test the concept at about 800 single-family homes in four areas this summer. (Associated Press)

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An unidentified miner (left) is helped by an emergency worker after being rescued from the Cabeza de Negro gold-and-copper mine in Yauca del Rosario, Peru, on Wednesday, April 11, 2012. Nine miners had been trapped inside the wildcat mine since Thursday. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

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Japan Self-Defense Force members work April 11, 2011, on a unit of Japan Air Self-Defense Force's PAC-3 surface to air missile deployed in Ishigaki, Japan's southern most prefecture of Okinawa. Japan is on alert for North Korea's rocket which is expected to launch between April 12-16. (Associated Press/Kyodo News)

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A Korean Air Boeing 777 is parked on the runway at Canadian Forces Base Comox on British Columbia's Vancouver Island after an emergency landing on Tuesday, April 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Canadian Press, Richard Warrington)

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People wait as they are evacuated from a shopping mall after a strong earthquake was felt in Medan, Sumatra island, Indonesia, Wednesday, April 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)

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In this image made from Indonesian television TV One, people on motorcycles and cars flee after a strong earthquake hit in Aceh in Indonesia, Wednesday, April 11, 2012. (AP Photo/TV One via AP Video)

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Hal Uhrig (right) and Craig Sonner withdrew as defense attorneys for George Zimmerman, the man who claims self-defense in the fatal shooting of black teenager Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla. "We're concerned for his emotional and physical safety," Mr. Uhrig said at a Tuesday news conference, saying that their client had cut off all contact and that he had left the state. (Associated Press)

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Ryu Kum-chol, of North Korea's Committee for Space Technology, says the rocket launch will be a peaceful effort to put a weather-and-research satellite into orbit. (Associated Press)

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Hal Uhrig (right) and Craig Sonner withdrew as defense attorneys for George Zimmerman, the man who claims self-defense in the fatal shooting of black teenager Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla. "We're concerned for his emotional and physical safety," Mr. Uhrig said at a Tuesday news conference, saying that their client had cut off all contact and that he had left the state. (Associated Press)